On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 14:43, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I don't like the comma rule, because it can be
easily
(and inadvertantly) worked around. For example, what
if someone wrote "in Massachusetts, USA." for the
Boston article. Then the rule and subsequently
software would consider it a full article.
No arbitrary automatic rule is perfect. If the rule was three periods,
someone could write "in Massachusetts..." etc. They're all dumb rules,
essentially equivalent.